The Old Pike and the Iron Rail Folly
A mixed excerpt describes the decline of the old turnpike with stagecoaches and horses replaced by iron rails and railways. It then shifts to a didactic moral tale about George Henry, a poor boy neglected by teachers, whose life changes after a compassionate, corrective intervention by a reform-minded instructor named Mr. Kelly. The piece ends with social observations and light vignettes about community life in Lycoming County.
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George Henry
George
Henry
Sinc
Kelly
Mr. Kelly
Anecdotes of College Professors and a Clever Thief Trap
A moral professor at a distant college bungles prayer in chapel and quits preaching, a German professor mangles an expletive in public, and a miller in Jeverly traps a thief with a spring-latch foxtrap, delivering lashes for the culprit. Also includes reflective passages on trust and a quip on mankind.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
England
Jeverly
Harper's Magazine
Young America and the rising generation
A satirical critique by Hanay Fern on the youth of the era. The piece laments rapid maturity among boys, their embrace of style and luxury, and the loss of traditional boyhood. It warns against pompous grooming, cigars, and revolvers while hoping for moderation and respect for older values.
Puzzle on circular discard saves Christians in voyage tale
A sea captain tests a method to lighten his ship by throwing every ninth passenger until only fifteen remain. Fifteen Christians survive while Turks are eliminated. The arrangement begins at the left and the sequence demonstrates the outcome amid a garbled line of letters and quips from various sayings.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Greenbush
Germany
D. D
Tom Thumb and His Kin in New York Dispatch Letter
A Philadelphia Dispatch correspondent reports on General Tom Thumb, age about twenty two, visiting in New York with his sisters. He is described as small, childish, stingy, and not yet educated, while his father is a dressy farmer from Connecticut. The piece notes his upcoming schooling and criticizes the obsession with wealth and notoriety. It also includes miscellaneous humorous anecdotes and facts such as the Onondaga salt works producing salt valued at 1,939,168 in 1853.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lycoming County
Muncy
Milton
Judge Pollock
Pollock
Pennsylvania
Nebraska
Libery
New York
Philadelphia Dispatch
Tom Thumb
Eighth Avenue
Connecticut
Dee
Bell Song from the N Y Tribune
A poetic piece adapts a thunderous bell imagery with lines urging the bell to sound through storms. The verse describes lightning, thunder, and the bell’s defiant voice as a triumphant signal of nature and spirit overcoming fear.
Tragic fall at Western Hotel claims editor Chester's child
The Buffalo Lepress reports the death of Anson G. Chester's young daughter after she toppled from a second floor bannister at the Western Hotel. The bereaved father records a tender, faith filled farewell describing a bright morning turned to darkness as a cradle song becomes a memorial in the garden of God.
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Buffalo Lepress
Anson G. Chester
Western Hotel
Rachel
European grain deficit 1853 totals three hundred fifty five million bushels
The 1853 European grain year saw a wide deficit. Britain and France lost about 140 million bushels, with France 73 million, Britain 46 million, Belgium and Holland 11.5 million, the Rhine provinces and others 28 million, and Western Europe 151 million, totaling 355.5 million bushels. The best wheat came from the Danubian provinces. US exports to England reached 20 million bushels by March 1, 1854, and imports to Britain later shifted.
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Europe
Great Britain
France
Belgium
Holland
Prussia
Switzerland
Italy
Western
Danubian
Black Sea
United States
England
Pitts. Jom
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Pike
Sam
Boston
John
Home Department
War Department
von Dam
Young America
Rascal
America
THE
Warren Mail
Cowan
T.d.edwards
Ludlow Building
Trask House
Curtis & Mile
Eee Cend
Waterstreet
Warren, Pa
B. Curtis
John N. Miles
J. D. James
Exchange Building
L. T. Parmlee
Water Street
Carver House
Warren, Warren Co
Wetmore & Spencer
Second St
Johnson & Brown’s
L. D, Wetmore
T. C. Spencer
Johnson & Brown
Ludlow
Warren
P. Johnson
Scofield & Brown
Waters
Lenniw
Scofield
William D. Brown
Phillip Mead
Justice of the Peace
Scott's Exchange
Youngsville
Warren Co. Pa
Taylor & Waters
Front
Hickory Streets
H. J. Taylor
Myron Waters
Lewis Arnett
Exchange
D. M Williams
Temperance House
J. B. Brown
Sugar Grove
Warren Co
Dorwin Greene
Summerton & Church
Water St. Warre
H.W. Rasabun
Elec
Algo Consignee
Toods
Breeze Point
H. H. Hunt
Stockton & Fuller
Brown’s
Park Row
Erie
P.R. Bennett
George Sailor
Variety Hall
Warren Pa
R. D. Ward
Dunkirk
N.Y
N. Y
Buffalo and
State Line
Benjamin Nesmit
P. S. Carr
Court Horse
Mead
Main
Diamond Sts
Warren County
James Axvarews
Bens
E. M. Pierce
Third
L. Ee Guignon
Ames & Davis
Benson & Co
J. L. Kapple
Mead & M’leon
Butler, Glisan & Frisbee
Mainstreet
Buffalo
Pittsfield
Penes L. Acocks
Aa Jones
Harry Birn
Liberty Society
Onondaga Salt Works
N.Y. Tribune
Grain Statistics
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